Donating Blood as Stated by the American Red Cross It is said that 70% of Americans are eligible to give blood even though the criteria to donate seems quite strict. Each case is treated individually based on why the person is donating. An autologous donor is one who is giving blood to use for them self if needed during a future surgery. All others are anonymous donors who donate blood for others to use when it is needed. I will discuss the reasons why a person could not donate blood as an anonymous
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Somehow immune to an unstoppable‚ incurable virus‚ military virologist Robert Neville is now the last human survivor in New York City and maybe the world. But he is not alone. Mutant plague victims lurk in the shadows? watching Neville’s every move? waiting for him to make a fatal mistake. Perhaps mankind’s last‚ best hope‚ Neville is driven by only one remaining mission: to find an antidote using his own immune blood. But he knows he is outnumbered? and quickly running out of time. SYNOPSIS The
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Zika virus is a disease spread to people mainly through a mosquito bite. The mosquito has to be infected with Aedes Species. Aedes Species is the main character that spreads the virus that causes Zika. Usually the mosquito that carries the virus is a female. There are a number of symptoms involved with the disease. For example some common symptoms are a fever‚ rash‚ joint pain and red eyes. This is a mild illness where the symptoms can last for several days to a week after the initial bite. If you
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Zika Virus‚ the rogue bug‚ has created quite a dreadful scene on an international scale by spreading rapidly to over 39 countries across the world. Doctors have described this as a “pandemic in progress”‚ indicating a state of emergency due to its rapid geographic expansion. Here are answers to all the questions you will ever need to ask about the Zika virus- What is the Zika Virus disease? It is a disease caused by a day time active species of mosquitoes infected by a virus called Zika. The
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cases of acute hepatitis C virus infections reported in the United States. There were 3.5 million people who were reported to have chronic hepatitis C. Acute hepatitis C is a short-term illness that occurs within the first six months after someone is exposed to the hepatitis C virus. Chronic hepatitis C means the virus remains in the person’s body. Hepatitis C can last a lifetime and lead to cirrhosis or scarring of the liver or liver cancer. Hepatitis C is spread when blood from a person infected
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HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS OR HIV -ay isang lentivirus (na kasapi ng pamilyang retrovirus) na nagsasanhi ng acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS o nakukuhang kakulangan ng immunong sindroma)‚ Ang AIDS ay isang kondisyon sa mga tao kung saan ang patuloy ng pagkabigo o paghina ng sistemang immuno ay pumapayag sa mga nakapanganganib sa buhay na mga oportunistikong mga impeksiyon na manaig. History HIV-1 from chimpanzees and gorillas to humans Scientists generally accept that the known
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“ Raging fevers‚ clotting‚ spurts of blood‚ and terminal shock” are some of the symptoms that frightened people who didn’t want to get the Marburg virus (Preston 36). These are just some of the symptoms people experienced in Germany in 1967. Marburg was discovered in a factory called the Behring Works. This factory used the kidney cells of African green monkeys to produce vaccines for polio. The marburg virus had been discovered after a shipment of green monkeys had been brought from Uganda. These
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killing viruses‚ the Ebola virus. Have you ever wondered how it infects people‚ how the victims are treated‚ and how they are working to control the outbreaks. These are just some of the many questions about this deadly disease that could soon turn into an epidemic. The Ebola virus is a member of the negative strand RNA virus‚ also known as flivoviruses. Filovirus causes hemorrhagic fevers in humans‚ but there are only 2 known members of the filovirus so far; Ebola and Marburg virus. There are four different
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Rotten Blood Critic Shannon Winnubst says‚ “The collective nightmare AIDS performs some of our worst cultural anxieties about desire‚ fear‚ and aggression; about gender‚ sexuality‚ and race; about history‚ bodies‚ and violence.” As unpleasant as it is to deal with AIDS Patients (vampires)‚ when a crime results in bloodshed‚ the blood left behind functions as evidence for investigators (people). A bloodstain pattern analyst (people stereotypes) can’t simply glance at drips and smears of blood and immediately
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Introduction A bacteriophage is a virus that infects bacteria. A type of bacteriophage is bacteriophage lambda. This specific bacteriophage infects E. Coli. It is composed of protein and double stranded DNA ¡VdsDNA). The DNA of the phage contains around 50‚000 base pairs and codes for 50 proteins. At both ends of the DNA of the phage‚ there are cohesive ends‚ which are composed of 12 nucleotides. Both ends compliment each other‚ which makes the DNA circular once together. This circular DNA
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